Spam Double-Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers with Advertisers

The Microsoft Research Systems Management Research Group was officially established on March 30, 2004, expanded into Cybersecurity and Systems Management Research Group on May 3, 2005, and further expanded into the Search Quality & Cyber-Intelligence Lab (SQ-CIL) under the newly established Internet Services Research Center (ISRC) in July 2007, with basic research, applied research, and advanced development effort in the areas of search quality, systems, networking, and cyber-intelligence.

Primary Contact: Yi-Min Wang
Chen, Shuo	Kiciman, Emre	Photo Not Available Liu, Chao	Tan, Wenzhao
Wang, Yi-Min
Affiliate Members
Fan, Jinliang

• Strider
(umbrella project name)
• Shuo Chen's Projects
• Emre Kiciman's Projects

Highlights

• Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)
  • "AjaxScope: A Platform for Remotely Monitoring the Client-side Behavior of Web 2.0 Applications," SOSP 2007
• Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)
  • Chad Verbowski, Emre Kiciman, Brad Daniels, Arunvijary Kumar, Yi-Min Wang, Roussi Roussev, Shan Lu, Juhan Lee, "Flight Data Recorder: Always-on Tracing and Scalable Analysis of Persistent State Interactions to Improve Systems and Security Management," OSDI 2006
  • Helen J. Wang, John Platt, Yu Chen, Ruyun Zhang, and Yi-Min Wang, "Automatic Misconfiguration Troubleshooting with PeerPressure," OSDI 2004
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SSP, the Oakland Conference)
  • Shuo Chen, Jose Meseguer, Ralf Sasse, Helen J. Wang, Yi-Min Wang, "A Systematic Approach to Uncover Security Flaws in GUI Logic," SSP 2007
  • Samuel T. King, Peter M. Chen, Yi-Min Wang, Chad Verbowski, Helen J. Wang, Jacob R. Lorch, "SubVirt: Implementing malware with virtual machines", SSP 2006
  • Qixiang Sun, Daniel R. Simon, Yi-Min Wang, Wilf Russell, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, and Lili Qiu, "Statistical Identification of Encrypted Web Browsing Traffic," SSP 2002

1. "VM-Based Rootkits Proved Easily Detectable, October 2, 2007.
   
   
2. "Microsoft Tracks Down Mass Fake Web Pages", March 20, 2007.
   
   
3. "MS Research Automates Search Engine Spam Hunt", July 13, 2006.
   
   
4. "Google Propping Up Typosquatting Biz?", April 30, 2006.
   
   
5. "Microsoft Tool To Help Users Avoid Typo Domains," April 14, 2006
   
   
6. "Microsoft 'URL Tracer' Hunts Typosquatters," April 07, 2006
   
   
7. "Microsoft Research Warn About VM-Based Rootkits," Mar 10, 2006
   
   
8. "Honeymonkeys Discover Undisclosed Vulnerability," Aug 12, 2005
   
   
9. "Microsofts "Honeymonkey" Project," May 18, 2005
   
   
10. "Microsoft Warns of Impossible to Clean Spyware," Feb. 18, 2005
    • "SysInternals Releases RootkitRevealer," Feb 23, 2005
    
    

• STRIDER: A Computer Genomics Approach to Systems Management and Support, Stanford University, May 6, 2003.



• Computer Genomics: Towards Self- Change and Configuration Management, SELF-STAR: International Workshop on Self-Star Properties in Complex Information Systems, June 2, 2004



• STRIDER: A New Approach to Configuration and Security Management, Intel Oregan, Oct. 21, 2004.



• STRIDER: A New Approach to Configuration and Security Management, UC Berkeley, Oct. 28, 2004.



• STRIDER: A New Approach to Configuration and Security Management, Georgia Tech, Nov. 18, 2004.